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Junco hyemalis shufeldtl (not of Coale) Ridgway, Auk, vii, 1890, 289 (Laurel, 

 Maryland, 1 spec. Apr. 28, 1890.— (?) Praeger, Auk, xii, 1895, 85 (w. Illi- 

 nois, opp. Keokuk, Iowa, 1 spec. Dec. 16). — American ORMXHOLotiisTs' 

 Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 5676, part (Maryland, Massachusetts 

 (?), etc.). — (?) Butler, Birds Indiana, 1897, 965 (Lafayette, 1 spec. Jan. 

 20, 1891). 



(?) Junco hyemalis connectens (not of Coues?) Merrill, Auk, xv, 1898, 16, part 

 (Fort Sherman, Idaho, migrant) . 



Junco montanus'RiuGw Ay, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 321 (Columbia Falls, Montana; 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. ). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 119 (no. 567.1).— Cooke, Auk, xvi, 1899, 188 (Pueblo, Colorado, Oct.). 



JUNCO MEARNSI Ridgway. 

 PINK-SIDED JUNCO. 



Adult male in summer. — Head, neck, and chest plain graj', darker 

 (slate-graj") above, paler (no. 6 gTay^) beneath; lores blackish slate; 

 back and scapulars broccoli brown or drab; smaller wing-coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts plain gray (a rather dull shade of No. 6 

 or approaching smoke gray); sides and flanks (broadly) pinkish, 

 vinaceous-cinnamon, or buff -pink; median under parts, including under 

 tail-coverts, white; wings and tail dusky; the greater coverts (except 

 outermost) and tertials broadly edged with broccoli brown or wood 

 brown; rest of remiges and outermost greater covertili and six middle 

 rectrices edged with gray; two outermost rectrices white, except at 

 extreme base, the third largely white; bill pale yellowish brown in 

 dried skins (pinkish white in life'^), usualh^ with more or less of the tip 

 dusk}^; tarsi light brownish, toes darker. 



Adult female in summer. — Similar to summer male, l)ut colors aver- 

 aging less pure, the gray of head, etc., more brownish (more mouse 

 gray above, smoke gray below), the vinaceous of sides and flanks less 

 pinkish, and, usually, with inner web of second tail-feather largely 

 dusky. 



Adults in winter. — Not essentially difterent from summer adults, 

 but plumage softer and the gray purer and rather lighter, that of the 

 chest faintly varied by still paler tips to the feathers. 



Youne/ in first winter. — Much like winter adults, but gray of pileum 

 and hindneck more or less washed with, or overlaid by, broccoli brown 

 or hair brown, that of the chest tinged with the vinaceous-pink color 

 of the sides, usually (especially in females) forming a more or less dis- 

 tinct broad band connecting the two lateral pinkish areas, the gray of 

 the throat, etc., also lighter than in adults, and often tinged or mixed 

 with vinaceous-pink; under tail -coverts bufi'y white or pale bufi'; bill 

 more dusky than in adults. 



Young {first jdumage). — Pileum and hindneck brownish gmj or hair 

 brown, broadly streaked with blackish; back and scapulars broccoli 



- See Ridgway' s Nomenclature of Colors, plate 2. 



